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There won't be a new ROCR update next week, nor will there be new s on this blog for a while. I'm putting this site into freeze mode for a little while so that it's easier to move stuff over.
The site will be moving to Lunarpages. The moving process is going much faster than expected; you can already see the site in action at Reinderdijkhuis.com and preview the new Wordpress version of the blog, complete with comments functionality, on the last few posts at All-new Waffle. Many of the links on those pages still point back to the old site, but that will be over and done with when the rocr.net is moved over, which I plan to do over the weekend.

If the rumoured new Doe Maar album actually materialises, I will do a "Countdown to... " on this blog in the days leading up to the release date, like I did with the Kate Bush album Aerial. I'll review all previous albums in order, one a day, including the live albums and the Dub album. I might draw the line at reviewing all the compilations, though.

It's that big a deal to me, and besides, it'll be fun introducing a nationally-famous Dutch group to my international readership and trying to explain why they're a big deal.

In my review, I said that the songs from Klaar didn't have the relevance that the earlier albums had. I've been listening to that album though, and my statement should...

24 years after they split up for the first time, the legendary Dutch pop group Doe Maar can still sell anything with their name on it, so their second reunion stint (4 club shows, three gigs at Feijenoord Stadium and a festival gig in Belgium) sold out in no time. But did they have anything to add to their first reunion in 2000, especially now that they didn't come up with a studio album this time around?

Yes.

Hell yes.

How about much better sound, to start with? The 2000 gigs, great though they were, suffered from the fact that they were in Ahoy' Sports Hall, notorious for its reverb-laden acoustics. Tonight's concert at Feijenoord's stadium had crystal clear, well-balanced sound with...